Based on Workbook p 4, ex 1

Listen to the interview and choose True, False or Not Stated for the following sentences
InterviewerMr StevensonMr Stevenson, from what sources do American newspapers get their news?
Well, they mainly get it from the two US news agencies.
The first is Associated Press
and the second is United Press International.
Associated Press is often shortened for AP.
It is the oldest international agency.
When was it founded?
In the middle of the 19th century, in 1848 to be exact.
It is also the largest international news agency in the world.
Is it true that AP news and photographs
are used in more than one hundred countries?
Quite so.
It is believed that about two billion people get most of the news directly
or indirectly through Associated Press and United Press International.
Are these US agencies owned or controlled by the government?
They are not.
By the way, there are no official or government
owned newspapers in the USA either.
They say the press should be free and independent.
American journalists often quote Thomas Jefferson's noble words:
"Our liberty depends on freedom of the press,
and that cannot be limited without being lost".
Which is the basic feature of the American press as you see it?
In my view, all editors and journalists agree
that as much as possible news should be separated
from this or that opinion about it.
Reporters and commentators should carefully limit themselves to the news.
They should give facts —
who said what, and what actually happened, when, where and how.
The political viewpoints belong to opinion pages or columns.
When a news story appears on a newspaper page with a reporter's name,
what does it mean?
I think it means that the story is a mixture of fact and opinion.

1. United Press International is the only international news agency in the USA.
   [True|False|Not Stated]
2. Reporters and news agencies from abroad use the Associated Press and United Press International news materials.
   [True|False|Not Stated]
3. The largest international agency in the world was organised in the previous century.
   [True|False|Not Stated]
4. The US news agencies do not belong to the US Government.
   [True|False|Not Stated]
5. American journalists try to keep apart the news itself and their opinions about it.
   [True|False|Not Stated]
6. American journalists seldom sign their news stories.
   [True|False|Not Stated]